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Lot Essay
For another impression see the Rijksmuseum catalogue Part IV, Rijksprentenkabinet (Amsterdam, 1984), p. 139 and 143.
Details
KEISAI EISEN (1790-1848)
Two women on their way to a shrine, the one on the right carrying a tobacco-pipe and a bamboo cane, while the other carries a bamboo cane and a straw hat, signed Keisai Eisen, poems by Ryukaen and Ryuotei whose butterfly emblem is depicted on the womens' costumes, very fine impression and colours with gauffraging and gold and silver-coloured powders, very good condition, collector's seal Vever
Shikishiban surimono: 8¼ x 7in. (21.0 x 17.6cm.)
Two women on their way to a shrine, the one on the right carrying a tobacco-pipe and a bamboo cane, while the other carries a bamboo cane and a straw hat, signed Keisai Eisen, poems by Ryukaen and Ryuotei whose butterfly emblem is depicted on the womens' costumes, very fine impression and colours with gauffraging and gold and silver-coloured powders, very good condition, collector's seal Vever
Shikishiban surimono: 8¼ x 7in. (21.0 x 17.6cm.)
Provenance
Henri Vever
Literature
Sotheby & Co., Highly Important Japanese Prints, Illustrated Books, Drawings and Fan Paintings from the Henri Vever Collection, Part II, 26 March 1975, no. 325.
Special notice
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